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Amoeblog posts marked with little ethiopia.California Fool's Gold -- A Midtown Primer<span style="font-size: medium; "><strong>JUST LIKE MIDTOWN TRAFFIC -- MIDTOWN&nbsp;<br />
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<div style="text-align: center; "><img alt="Midtown detail of Los Angeles County Map" width="560" height="309" border="10" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/MidtownDetail.jpg" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small; "><strong>A detail of <a href="http://brightwell-shop.com/cartography">Pendersleigh &amp; Sons Cartography</a>'s map of LA County showing Midtown's location</strong></span></div>
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<strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Midtown-Los-Angeles/160060807372093">Midtown</a></strong> is a small but bustling area of&nbsp;<strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/los-angeles/page1.html">Los Angeles</a></strong> surrounded by the larger regions of <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hollywood/188529757826215">Hollywood</a></strong> to the north, the<strong> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Westside/191055177576070">Westside</a></strong> to the west, <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/south-los-angeles/page1.html">South LA</a></strong> to the south and the<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/mideast-side/page1.html">Mideast side</a></strong> to the east. As the crossroads of Los Angeles' population, the once whites-only region has long been one of its most ethnically and economically diverse areas, not only home to the largely <strong>Jewish Fairfax District</strong>&nbsp;and the ethnic enclaves of&nbsp;<strong>Koreatown </strong>and&nbsp;<strong>Little Bangladesh</strong>; it's also LA's only<strong> African-American</strong> enclave, <strong>Little Ethiopia</strong>. <br />
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<div style="text-align: center; "><img src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/Scan-3.jpeg" alt="Pendersleigh &amp; Sons Cartography's map of Midtown" width="560" height="431" /><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong><a href="http://brightwell-shop.com/cartography">Pendersleigh &amp; Sons</a></strong></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>' Official Map of Midtown</strong></span></div>
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The loosely-defined districts within Midtown include the areas of<strong> Mid-City, Mid-City West, Mid-Wilshire</strong> and<strong> Wilshire Center</strong>. Within them are numerous and distinct neighborhoods of varying sizes and character that collectively define Midtown's diverse nature. Sometimes Midtown is referred to as <strong>Wilshire</strong>, after <strong>Henry Gaylord Wilshire</strong>, the father of Midtown. <br />
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<strong>DEVELOPMENT OF MIDTOWN<br />
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Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:00:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/07/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-a-midtown-primer.htmlCalifornia Fool's Gold -- Exploring Little Ethiopia<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>LIVING WOULD BE EASY IF YOUR COLOURS WERE LIKE MY DREAMS -- LITTLE ETHIOPIA - &#4618;&#4725;&#4621; &#4770;&#4725;&#4846;&#4917;&#4843;</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Little Ethiopia neighborhood sign" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/LittleEthiopiaSign.jpg" width="560" height="420" /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">This blog entry is about the <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2011/07/eric-s-blog/just-like-midtown-traffic-so-hard-to-get-through-to-you-a-midtown-primer.html">Midtown</a></strong> neighborhood of <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Little-Ethiopia/102729459785307?created&amp;v=page_getting_started#!/pages/Los-Angeles-CA/Little-Ethiopia/102729459785307?v=wall&amp;__a=26&amp;ajaxpipe=1">Little Ethiopia</a></strong>. To vote for more <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/los-angeles-neighborhoods/page1.html">LA neighborhoods</a></strong>, click <strong><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=nww_2fnYygAFbzGG_2fn7FfXEw_3d_3d">here</a></strong>. To vote for <strong><a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/los-angeles-county-communities/page1.html">LA County communities</a></strong>, click <strong><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bO652yvN3UVQLjDz0Zmvtg_3d_3d">here</a></strong>. To vote for<strong> <a href="http://www.amoeba.com/blog/tags/orange-county-neighborhoods/page1.html">OC communities</a></strong>, click <strong><a href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=_2bO652yvN3UVQLjDz0Zmvtg_3d_3d">here</a></strong>. I was accompanied on my adventure to the hood by <strong>Aussie</strong> filmmaker, <strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3434031/">Diana Ward</a></strong>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Little Ethiopia - looking south down Fairfax" height="253" width="560" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Eric_B/LittleEthiopia.jpg" /><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><br />
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Tue, 03 Aug 2010 20:30:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/08/eric-s-blog/california-fool-s-gold-exploring-little-ethiopia.htmlSOUNDTRACK SERIES #5<div style="text-align: center;">
<div style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Directions:</strong> <em>Imagine Mr. Brother living another day, as always, with music playing. Whether it&rsquo;s one of his trusty iPods, or his home stereo, or working the soundtracks section of Amoeba Music Hollywood, Mr. Brother is eating, sonically, with the mouths of his ears.<br />
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To simulate this experience, as you read the below story of a day lived, you will be given certain music clips to play. These are inserted to provide you with the same tunes Job was <strong>hearing</strong> as he was <strong>doing</strong> what you&rsquo;ll be <strong>reading</strong>.<br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><em>For example, while he was writing the above directions, he was listening to this:<br />
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The boyfriend and I need a lamp. Not just any lamp &ndash; something that can complete his &ldquo;reading <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nook">nook</a>&rdquo; in the prominent corner of our living room. It must be a lamp that won&rsquo;t be diminished by our awesome Italian chair (roughly the size of my last apartment) which it will stand behind, be powerful enough to provide the boyfriend with the amount of light he likes in order to read (roughly the brightness of two suns) and, in general, should be hella <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rad">rad</a>.<br />
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So, every Sunday for the past month, he and I have set out into the deliciously temperatured* but cruelly trafficked land of Los Angeles. Armed with my trusty iPod, which I plug into his car &ndash; a Lexus with a capacity for smarts exceeding most high school students &ndash; its music gives me the fortitude to face another shopping day.<br />
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Sun, 02 May 2010 19:46:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2010/05/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/soundtrack-series-5.html